Edmund Lengfelder

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Edmund Lengfelder (born March 30, 1943 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) is a German radiation biologist and doctor .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Augustinus-Gymnasium Weiden in 1962 and completing military service, Edmund Lengfelder studied medicine in Munich from 1964 to 1970. In 1971 he received his doctorate in medicine with his dissertation on the radiation biochemistry of nucleotides . From 1971 to 1972 he worked on research on radiation-induced radical reactions at the Institute of Cancer Research and Department of Physics in London. In 1974 he completed an additional degree in physics and electronics. In 1979 he completed his habilitation in the field of radiation biology. In 1983 he was appointed professor at the Radiation Biology Institute by the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1989 he was visiting professor at the English national research center Medical Research Council in Harwell.

After the Chernobyl disaster , he began providing aid in the affected regions in Belarus and Ukraine . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he went to Belarus in one of the most contaminated areas around the city of Homel , where he and his institute staff and doctors on site set up a thyroid center in which over 100,000 people have so far had thyroid and thyroid cancer were treated according to western standards. In 1992 he founded the German Association for Chernobyl Aid (DVTH) to help people affected by the Chernobyl accident in the particularly polluted areas, but also beyond. On the one hand to specifically help in the areas affected by this "with humanitarian projects in the field of medicine, social affairs and training", but also in general "to provide humanitarian aid to the affected population after incidents with radiological exposure at home and abroad", " Counteracting damage to health "and" promoting measures to reduce radiation exposure and improve the ecological, health and social situation of people ".

Outside of academic structures, he founded the Society for Radiation Protection and, connected to it, the Otto Hug Radiation Institute , named after the radiation biologist Otto Hug , of which he is also director.

Since 1991 he has been working on the International Scientific Advisory Board at the Sakharov International Environment University in Minsk . In 2006 he initiated the international congress "20 Years of Living with Chernobyl - Experiences and Lessons for the Future", which evaluated the health and other consequences of the disaster. In his scientific work on the health effects of radioactivity, he focuses not only on the health consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, but also on the induction of diseases even in the low dose range.

Services

Lengfelder has so far claims to over 200 publications on the subjects of radical biochemistry, molecular and cellular effects of radiation , radiation risk , radioecology , consequences of nuclear accidents, Chernobyl consequences written. He is a member of several international societies in the fields of radiation research, radiation biology, radiation protection , radiology and oncology as well as biochemistry .

Since 1986 he has focused on the health and radio-ecological consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe and the induction of diseases through low radiation doses and ionizing radiation . As head of the projects of the Otto Hug Radiation Institute e. V. he was in the Chernobyl region more than 150 times from 1986 to 2006.

criticism

In a popular book, Krämer / Mackenthun criticize Lengfelder for claiming the number of deaths as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster at 25,000 up to 1996 and for considering far lower figures from the International Atomic Energy Agency to be nonsensical. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection continues to assume that there are no reliable figures on possible radiation-related deaths after Chernobyl.

Climate denial

Prior to the federal election in 2017 Lengfelder met several times at events of the Alternative for Germany in Rosenheim as "climate expert" and was represented at klimaleugnende positions. Among other things, Lengfelder refers to the hacking incident on climate research center of the University of East Anglia , which one his opinion prevailing corruption in the climatology to prove, and represents for many years extensively refuted hypothesis that wine on Greenland since the times of the Vikings have been possible and that global warming cannot be attributed to an anthropogenic increase , but is only subject to natural fluctuations outside of any human influence.

In his function as chairman of the Otto Hug Radiation Institute for Health and Environment eV, he also published a handout for teachers and another publication which represent conspiratorial ideological views, portray the educational system in Germany as politically indoctrinated and raise allegations of propaganda and corruption . Lengfelder also draws a comparison with Galileo Galileo's situation before the Copernican change .

In December 2017, Lengfelder gave a lecture as part of a conscious meeting in Stephanskirchen , a local group close to the Reich Citizens Movement in the course of the video propaganda project Conscious.TV .

Awards

Works

  • Phosphorescence of adenine, adenosine, adenosine monophosphate and ribose after X-ray irradiation. Diss. Munich 1970
  • et al .: Radiation Effect. Radiation risk. Verlag Hugendubel Heinrich GmbH 1988, ISBN 3-88034-414-0
  • Otto Hug Radiation Institute: The Otto Hug Radiation Institute introduces itself. MMV-Medizin-Verlag, Munich 1989
  • Radiation effect. Radiation risk. Data, evaluation and conclusions from a medical point of view. Hüthig Jehle Rehm publishing house 1990, ISBN 3-609-63260-7
  • The importance of modifying factors for the collection, evaluation and dissemination of research results on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. MMV Medizin-Verlag, Munich 1992
  • (Ed.): New assessment of the radiation risk: low-dose radiation and health. Proceedings, Kiel 1992. Together with the Otto-Hug-Strahlinstitut e. V. and the Radiological University Clinic in Kiel, MMV Medizin-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-8208-1224-5
  • (Ed.): Health risks and consequences of uranium mining in Thuringia and Saxony. Dresden 1993. Together with the Otto Hug Radiation Institute e. V., Bonn, and the Otto Hug Radiation Institute - Med. Aid Measures e. V., Munich, MMV Medizin-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-8208-1259-8
  • (Ed.): 100 years of X-ray: Medical radiation exposure - assessment of the risk. Verlag Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz 1997, ISBN 3-9805-2600-3
  • et al .: 15 years after Chernobyl: health consequences and humanitarian commitment. Verlag Evangelische Akademie Loccum 2003, ISBN 3-8172-6001-6
  • Congress volume for the international congress "20 Years of Living with Chernobyl - Experiences and Lessons for the Future", September 14-17, 2006, Feldkirch, Austria, ISBN 978-3929990-04-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Edmund Lengfelder - curriculum vitae and professional career. In: ZeitenSchrift. ZeitSchrift-Verlag Seiler & Co., 2008, accessed on March 18, 2011 .
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on November 28, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dvth.de
  3. ↑ Website of the German Association for Chernobyl Aid ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: website of the German Association for Chernobyl Aid, history )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dvth.de
  5. ^ Otto Hug Radiation Institute: The Executive Board , accessed on August 9, 2016
  6. ↑ The evidence is mounting - cancer near the reactor , in: Focus online, accessed on November 28, 2011
  7. ↑ p. 294 ( Memento from November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB) Krämer / Mackenthun: Die Panik-Macher. Munich, 2001
  8. ↑ Federal Office for Radiation Protection: Questions and Answers ( Memento of May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Chernobyl reactor disaster.
  9. ↑ AfD KV Rosenheim: Climate change - Trump gets out of agreement! Part 1. August 19, 2017, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  10. ^ AfD district association Rosenheim: AfD citizen information evening with climate expert Prof. Dr. Dr. Lengfelder. In: Rosenheim24.de. OVB24 GmbH, August 23, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  11. ↑ AfD district association Rosenheim: How dangerous is CO2? In: Ovb-online.de . Oberbayerisches Volksblatt GmbH & Co. Medienhaus KG, August 17, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  12. ^ AfD Kreisverband Rosenheim: Discussed about the climate. In: Ovb-online.de . Oberbayerisches Volksblatt GmbH & Co. Medienhaus KG, August 28, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Prof. Meuthen, Prof. Lengenfelder and Braun on September 11th. in Schorndorf at 7 p.m. In: AfD-Kompakt.de. Alternative für Deutschland , September 11, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b Susanne Schwarz: Climate deniers say Glück Auf. In: Klimaretter.info . KJB KlimaJournalistenBüro UG, August 9, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Patrick Gensing : The legend of the wine from Greenland. In: Tagesschau.de . Norddeutscher Rundfunk , June 9, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  16. ^ Ray Weymann: The "grapes grew in Greenland myth". In: Central Coast Climate Science Education. March 15, 2015, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Edmund Lengfelder: Carbon dioxide and climate. Otto Hug Radiation Institute for Health and Environment eV, December 2013, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  18. ^ Edmund Lengfelder: Carbon dioxide and climate: facts - propaganda - misleading. Otto Hug Radiation Institute for Health and Environment eV, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Association event with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Edmund Lengfelder. December 13, 2017, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Bauer: Dr. Lengfelder: CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. December 20, 2017, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Conscious meetings. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Gabriela Keller: taz series: Die Reichsbürger (Part 3): The man in the Teufelsmoor . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 11, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 1, 2018]).
  23. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Franzisk-Skorini-Orden , Deutsches Ärzteblatt 96, Issue 6, February 12, 1999, PDF, accessed on March 17, 2011.
  24. ↑ “'Munich shines' for Professor Dr. Edmund Lengfelder ” , article from April 3, 2003 on muenchen.de, accessed on March 17, 2011.
  25. ↑ Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize 2011 for Prof. Dr. Edmund Lengfelder (website of the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern, accessed on September 20, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Lengfelder, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiation biologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Willows in the Upper Palatinate